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Booger says

That photo looks like the customers are their own Hibachi Grill Masters.
I think I would much rather prefer that than 80% of the Hibachi grillers I've had at those places. On a plus side, nobody will force you to open your mouth so the Hibachi Chef can squirt Saki in your mouth through a clear ketchup squeeze bottle.

HunterTits says

That actually would not cause a problem.

Why not? Because the incoming train would simply sever the hose? Still be a problem for the hose operators, no?

Ceffer says

My younger relatives tend to know music from the 1980's, even though they themselves were not born until the 1990's. I'm always surprised by this.

I have a couple thousand vinyl records and a super stereo system. When my nephew and his old chum girl friend came over some years ago, I was shocked because they saw all those records, piled them on the floor, and spent an hour and a half looking through them with feeding frenzy, and picked the ones they wanted me to play. All the pre-80's stuff and some early 80's.

When I said an Album collection from the early 80's, I meant the Records collected over the last 20 years prior to the 80's. The 80's is when music started going to hell. Every band in your record collection, had far better albums from the70's or 60's than the commercial grade crap they put out in the 80's. Van Halen's 1984 Album for example, the worst album they ever put out.

Ceffer says

The problem is, if you have never heard these things or made these comparisons, you will just never know. Most people don't care about quality sound. The closest most people have heard are in the large horn systems in movie theaters.

Also, you can't generalize about mastering because it is all over the map. Studio engineers are often artists, too, and there do exist recordings that are very carefully mastered and minimally compressed or uncompressed.

It goes way beyond the sound quality and more about the fidelity of the music.
For example the human male voice, that is not a low baritone but normal sounding. Seems to have no registries in the lower frequencies that would require a cross over and subwoofer system to hear them. But the difference in someone speaking or singing in a PA that has a Subwoofer system, vs one that doesn't. Is more stark contrast than night and day. They may not be present in the vocal chords, but they are part of the sibilants and rumbles produced by your throat, mouth and tongue movements. There are so many semitones, produced with every note on every instrument, including the vocals, that CD's do not pick up. I don't care how polished and clean the engineer made the digital track sound. And it can get dam good at 192K 24bit recording samples, but then it gets converted to 16bit 44.1 KHz. I absolutely loath and detest the joyless fucks, that claim they can't tell the difference, so there for, there should never analog recording or devices to play them on.

They are same sorry fuckers, that think everyone should wear a mask, because they feel safer wearing one, even when they are driving a car alone.

80's to about '95, digital just about killed audio it was so bad. There was some good music, but it was so bad sounding it would make you brack. Digital made mastering guys lazy, and radio stations abandoned turntables for digital over the airwaves. FM radio is a pretty good sounding medium, but the digital over FM wasn't so hot.

Analog started being 'rediscovered' again in the mid 90's. Digital has gotten progressively better due to acknowledgment that it sucked, and about 2010 actually became decent and continues to get better. So, it only took 30 or 40 years of 'progress' in 'perfect sound forever' to become listenable. Now, inexpensive Chinese DAC's sound pretty good.
However, to really experience music in a way that seems natural, tuneful and toneful, many audiophiles still like analog.

The old music is good, but it was also generally mastered well in analog. Some of the stereo recordings from the early 60's and late 50's are some of the most revered still because they used tube electronics and printed to vinyl. There are even some studios that have re-adopted tube mastering, tape, vinyl etc., although the subjectivists would say that this is archaic and foolish given the 'perfection' of modern digital.

i used to browse Downbeat magazine. They had a section in the back describing how musicians developed and chose their instruments. One article was by a musician who spent two years trying to develop a particular formulation for a single cymbal that he wanted to sound a certain way. If you don't think 'subjective' sound matters, talk to some of these guys.

If you really want the lunatic fringe of hi end audio, watch this video and see if you can find any turntables. Munich High End Audio Show 2019. Sorry for Bad Tube, Pat. The costs can also be staggering, and there are audio nuts that pay them:
https://youtu.be/mNParABvqWA

HunterTits says

RC2006 says

That actually would not cause a problem.

Unlikely it could, but should a train pass through, IF it worked, it would derail the train (and I doubt that), and if it didn't work, the train would just slice through it.

RC2006 says

This is quite humane. They used to use passed out homeless guys.

Ceffer says

Digital has gotten progressively better due to acknowledgment that it sucked, and about 2010 actually became decent and continues to get better.

It's not that it got better, they quit recording analog equipment, so there would be no inferior recording of it.
The DAW produced Midi and WAV files give them a pallet to paint with and boundaries that wont stray outside the line.
What we've ended up with is a homogenized sterile digital soundscape that more background noise, than music that actually connects with people on a sonic level.
You can watch the most talented guy play a whole ensemble on a Oaysis the most advanced keyboard today. The audience would not be as into it, as if there was an acual horn ensemble playing the piece.
We used to have a local Jazz band, they were averagely decent. There was a keyboard guy that could play anything in any genre. He would go on and do a piece with a horn section played on his keyboard. The band with the horn section came out, the people went nuts, even the cheesiest horn solo got roaring ovation. Nobody gave a crap when the keyboard guy went into his 20 minute flute solo.

richwicks says

There is HONESTLY no advantage of analogue over digital.

Do not forget VHS HiFi. VHS HiFi is analog, but the equivalent of playing a tape deck at 18 feet per second (regular reel-to-reel is about 7.5 inches per second). Although the best analog by far, VHS HiFi was like Quadrasonic in that it was superior but did not catch on.

HeadSet says

richwicks says

There is HONESTLY no advantage of analogue over digital.

Do not forget VHS HiFi. VHS HiFi is analog, but the equivalent of playing a tape deck at 18 feet per second (regular reel-to-reel is about 7.5 inches per second). Although the best analog by far, VHS HiFi was like Quadrasonic in that it was superior but did not catch on.

Never heard of it, but there were some attempts to make digital VCR tapes I know. Would have been the equivalent of DVD but recording on it required some serious hardware at the time (analog to MP2 conversion required a computer the size of a refrigerator to get real time compression), and the cost of producing a DVD is actually LOWER than the cost of making a VCR tape. CDs are also cheaper to make than tape cassettes, although they cost more back in the day.

https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1419380016044023813

https://notthebee.com/article/tom-brady-posted-an-insane-vid-of-him-nailing-throws-to-a-football-launcher-and-i-cant-believe-its-real

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1419380016044023813

Where the hell was that? That's nuts.

I'd have recognized the danger before they did, but I would have also recognized there was nothing I could do.

It was in India.

Finally a reason why "The Funny Picture thread" is loathed and despised so much with dislikes by the Wet Blanket Commie Brigade.

I just made that my avatar at work.. :D

Lol, isn't 2022 still in the future?

HunterTits says

That actually would not cause a problem.

What is the reason for the little red ramps for in this situation?

komputodo says

HunterTits says

That actually would not cause a problem.

What is the reason for the little red ramps for in this situation?

The idea is that the train would ride over the ramps, rather than just cutting them to pieces.

That's the joke.

If the ramps can actually make the train ride over them, there's a risk of derailment, given what I've seen a train do to a penny, it's unlikely, it would just cut through the ramps, destroying the water hose as well. Basically, the ramps have no effect so there was no point in using the ramps at all.

I assume the (real) point of the ramps are so that a car can drive over the water hose without damaging it. A car is a lot lighter than a train and has more weight distribution. It appears the firefighters didn't think before they laid down the ramps and hose, or, it's just a joke entirely, and they know how useless this is.

Tenpoundbass says

The 80's is when music started going to hell.

Oh, I'm not the only one!

My memory of the 1980's music was vapid stupid music was constantly promoted as being popular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxgMGk9JPVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0

Those are the most fucking vulgar songs I've ever heard, and I had to hear it everywhere. Fucking hate the 1980s. Those are the two that come to mind, but there's plenty.

Michael Jackson was a fucking pedophile, and Madonna is a whore - she built her brand around being a disgusting whore. That was her shtick. The most popular entertainers of the 1980s, were just disgusting. Now we have this slut:



What a disgusting piece of shit.

There were outcries of disgust when Elvis Presley sang "Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear" implying he wanted to sleep with a girl, not necessarily fucking her, just sleeping in the same bed, although sex was heavily implied. THAT was a scandal, and that was 1957 and less than 25 years later, it was explicit grotesque lyrics designed explicitly to piss off parents and today, we just have piece of shit propagandist whores for Planned Parenthood.

I have a friend that lives in Oakland that when his wife got pregnant he went to Planed Parenthood - they ONLY offer abortion services, nothing else. So he went to a placed called "Womens Choice" or something similar, that is an actual Planned Parenthood. The nurse he met was quite explicit that she was against abortion and now he has brought his children to her to meet a few times.

With regard to the picture, at least Miley Cyruss learned to brush her filthy disgusting thrush tongue, or maybe it's just photoshop. She's so fucking gross.

richwicks says

My memory of the 1980's music was vapid stupid music was constantly promoted as being popular.

FWIW, I don't ever recall ever seeing an 80's pop act in an Album collection. People who listened to that music and the music it became. Let others curate for them what they heard and when they heard it. My brother had a lot of punk records, (Husker Du, Black Flag, Dead Kenedy's, Violent Femes, ect.) and if one of the pop new wave bands, might have had a cross over hit, that might have been in his collection. But definitely no Madonna, Petshop Boys, Duran Duran and the like.

Something for CA inhabitants and Bidet fans: